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Happy Waudna Wednesday! I decided to try out my new watercolor pencils in a Virginia Frances Sterrett study! Her trees are so droopy and wet looking and i wanted to put Laudna in a peaceful scene

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i’ve seen a lot of theories about what the soul relay did with ludinus and whether he’s coming back.

and i can help but think my ideal scenario for that would be a laudna situation using liliana

a couple of reasons for this:

worked with delilah briarwood on the assembly for years and would presumably recognize her work and be able to replicate it. he was able to trigger her in aeor—presumably he knows the conditions of the state she’s in because he’s looked into it himself

he would want a way to get back through the barrier in a reasonable amount of time—even assuming a convenient clone factory on ruidus, that’s still time for bell’s hells to pull some bullshit

the extended soul relay could have functioned to keep his soul until it got within range of her. she was in the outer chamber, still weakened from the quintessence array.

elaborating on this for a second: for this to work, he’d probably have to use a combination of soul cage and magic jar to make it work. have the staff capture his soul upon death, and then project it using magic jar, wherein he’d be able to possess anyone in a 100 foot range. based on my memory, she would be within range from where the staff was being held by the ravening void—moving it during the fight wasn’t a concern because he wasn’t using it as a focus. also the soul relay could extend the range a fair amount.

obviously her condition is a concern, but if we take the spell at its word:

Once you possess a creature's body, you control it. Your Hit Points, Hit Point Dice, Strength, Dexterity, Constitution, Speed, and senses are replaced by the creature's. You otherwise keep your game statistics.

if we consider the exaltant state/powers related to a tether to predathos, there’s no reason to assume it couldn’t transfer bodies. after all, it could be siphoned by the quintessence array.

he’s an archmage. this is exactly the type of shit they get up to. he’s artificially extended his life before—who says he couldn’t do it like this?

provides a scenario in which liliana has to literally fight ludinus’s influence on her brain, not just metaphorically.

alternatively, he’s been working with the weave mind and the cerberus assembly on body and genetic modification for a long time. who’s to say that liliana never underwent any of that in her time? i think he could figure out the arcana of a clone spell being applied to a different person rather than a clone copy. that would transfer his abilities, memories, and personality, thus making it so he could go through the barrier without issue.

when chetney went back to check for anything left by the forcecage, he didn’t find anything. imogen asked about her mom, but matt skirted around it to focus them on getting through to predathos.

makes the ‘ludinus is imogen’s mom’ jokes true

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World's Greatest Psychic (detective)

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Here's a mastiff completing the agility trial at a dog show.

The excited cheers of the crowd as this drool monster begrudgingly jumps, has made my 2025 already.

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this is the representation nepo babies deserve

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Had a horrible thought -

What if - Imogen cannot maintain control. Predathos takes over completely. They have to fight their friend, their girlfriend. Its long. Its tough. Its hard. But they do it. Predathos goes down.

Imogen's body remains, cold, lifeless. They beg someone to heal her, resurrect her.

But no Gods answer their call. They just released something to destroy the Gods, so why would any God answer their pleas?

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Looks like me 💭

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orym, champion of THE PEOPLE (my dash)

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"I thought I could do it. And the world will remember me as its greatest villain. [...] I'm a fool. And I brought ruin to the world. Hope that you are forgotten." —Vespin Chloras

ohh bells hells. what have you done.....

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Oh I am CRYING what do you mean Orym got to kill the person responsible for his husband and father’s deaths? What do you mean Liam got to kill the person responsible for Vax’s torment? The person Caleb has spent years tracking down for the pain he helped bring to both himself and his partner???

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Anyway my immediate thought when everyone could see their fate threads was that if Laudna used the mask, they could all share being the vessel somehow. Guardians of the Galaxy that shit.

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Pot, kettle, black, etc

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CRITICAL ROLE: CAMPAIGN 3 Episode 118: The Hallowed Cage

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Dorian saying he is just along for the ride, mind you the ride is 3'3, has a sword and shield and is the number one ludinus hater

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they did what they could with what they knew and i'll die on that hill

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my guy, the point of your family being collateral damage for the gods really isn’t as strong as you think it is when you’re talking to a guy whose family was collateral damage for your cause

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Can’t wait for the first content of campaign 3 for 2025 is gonna be a Ludinus monologue